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...Bush Administration--which has lately tried to ease relations with Tehran--criticized the ban. And French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, though at odds with Washington's Iraq policy, agreed in this case. He warned a visiting Tehran official last week that France will view the balloting as "an important marker of democracy." Khamenei's move indicates he, at least, is listening. --By Scott Macleod
...consensus rather than confrontation. Only after the invisible infrastructure of a modern state had been established would Iraq move to elections for a government and sovereignty. But that idea involved one fatal conceit: that the clock would move at a speed of the Administration's choosing. Dominique de Villepin, the French Foreign Minister, said acidly last week, "The American representatives on the ground continue to use the language of all the world's occupation regimes--'Just a little more time...
Three reasons. First, there is something about Dominique de Villepin, the oleaginous French Foreign Minister--with his dashing good looks, his volumes of poetry, his love of the word logic--that just gets under American skins...
...Three reasons. First, there is something about Dominique de Villepin, the oleaginous French Foreign Minister - with his dashing good looks, his volumes of poetry, his love of the word logic - that just gets under American skins...
...ruling Social Democratic Party, "which in the far right's eyes is responsible for the multicultural society in Sweden, such as bringing immigrants into the country." Last Friday some 1,300 people, including British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and Foreign Ministers Joschka Fischer of Germany and Dominique de Villepin of France, attended a solemn memorial service at Stockholm's City Hall. "Anna Lindh is no longer with us. That idea still feels so foreign, so difficult to accept," said Prime Minister Göran Persson. A week after the stabbing, the country's mood remained grim and unsteady, as hundreds...